Across the Market

Chapter 4

At this time Brother Shou also turned his head, with a smile on his delicate face, all the hair on the back of his head was shaved, leaving only a peach shape in front of his forehead, he saw that his second sister was making a pig face at him, so he turned towards him. My second sister stretched out her hand, wanting to hug her.

"Second sister hug me." Zhu Fu liked the little brother at home, hugged him full of arms, kissed his delicate face and said, "Second sister feed you porridge, okay?"

Brother Shou nodded obediently, and then Zhu Fu took the spoon from the eldest sister, and fed it to his younger brother one bite at a time.

The four brothers and sisters were just about to finish their meal when there was movement in the blacksmith shop ahead, Zhu Fu stretched out his head to have a look, and saw his father, mother and eldest brother coming home.

The cheap father is hunched over, with a tired look on his face, the eldest brother is better, after all, he is young and his body is good, but there is a lot of anger on his face.

Seeing that his father and elder brother had returned home, Zhu Xi hurriedly brought out the big bowl of porridge that was already hot on the stove, and brought two small bowls, and filled them up for his father and elder brother himself.

Looking at the sparse bowl of white rice porridge on the table, Wei Sanniang said to her husband, "How can I get enough to eat here? You and Brother Lu will eat some of the bottom first, and I will go to the kitchen to make noodles for you. A few days ago, my mother brought a bag of flour, and I made it for you to eat."

The mother Wei Sanniang refers to refers to Zhu Da's mother, Mrs. Guo, who lives in the countryside with her youngest son, Zhu Er.

Zhu Da rested for a while, but calmed down, and heard his wife say that she wanted to move the small bag of fine white noodles, so she hurriedly stopped her and said, "Leave it for the children to eat during the New Year, what can you make for me to eat?" He rubbed it Looking at the eldest son Zhu Lu, he finally let go, "Make some for Brother Lu to eat, and you can get me some stick noodles and make some wowotou to eat."

Zhu Lu said: "I don't want to eat..." Although he said he would not eat it, his stomach growled twice, he was a little embarrassed, and said in a lower voice, "Mother, save that fine white flour for younger brothers and sisters during the New Year's Eve Let’s eat steamed buns, I’m just like dad, just eat some stick noodles and steamed buns.”

After finishing speaking, he was not polite, sat down on the side, and Hululu picked up the gruel in the bowl.

Like his father, Zhu Lu is an honest man, even his figure is the same as his father Zhu Da when he was young, tall and burly, with a strong physique, he only knows how to concentrate on doing things and rarely talks.

Now he's eighteen, and he hasn't married a wife yet, but because his family is poor, girls in the city look down on this Zhu family.

In the end, the father and son ate thick noodles made of thin white flour. Wei Sanniang insisted on making them for her husband and son. How about eating something soft to nourish your body.

Spread a pound of fine white noodles into thick noodles with a rolling pin, boil the water in a large pot on the stove, throw all the noodles in, cook on high heat first, and simmer on low heat after the noodles are cooked, and stew for a quarter of an hour before serving come up.There were two big sea bowls full, and the father and son each took a bowl, and they both ate their mouths. In the end, the bottom of the big bowl was cleaner than the one washed with clean water.

Seeing his father and elder brother starving like this, Zhu Xi couldn't care less about his mother's affection, and complained: "When you ask for help, you can really come here with the cheek, but now it's time to eat after the work is over, and there is no father and elder brother." What's the matter...Mom, don't blame your daughter for talking too much, if it wasn't for her being a junior next to her, you would have gone to their house to argue, and they bully us less often!"

Wei Sanniang also hated her mother's family, but what can she do?That's my natal family, my brothers and sisters, so it's possible that they really broke up with each other?

Seeing that the eldest daughter didn't speak well, Zhu Da scolded her with a tiger's face: "Stinky girl, no matter how old or young, why are you talking to your mother? Go, wash the dishes." Then he turned to comfort his daughter-in-law and said, "Hi! My sister loves me too, so how can I blame you? If you want to blame, blame me, blame me for my incompetence..."

"Don't say these things in the future, why are you so incompetent? You are a thousand times better than ordinary men!" She was very disgusted when she heard her mother say that her husband was incompetent. How could her man allow others to say no? Words, but that is my mother, how can I reason?

"Forget it, you and Brother Lu are tired, go back to the house and rest first." She looked at the dirty clothes on the two big men, and said, "This clothes are so dirty, change them."

Zhu Xi had already gone to the kitchen with the bowl, and Zhu Fu, as the second daughter of the Zhu family, offered to help with the laundry.

Wei Sanniang patted the second daughter's head, and said with a smile: "Miss Fu is in good health and can't touch the water. Go and play with your younger brothers and sisters, and mother will wash it."

But Zhu Fu snatched the clothes over, blinked mischievously and said, "I'm 13 years old, I'm still a child, mother, from tonight I won't be playful, I will help my parents to make money Yes. Besides, I ate such a big chicken by myself, and my body has already healed." Then she said to Sister Nuan, "Sister Nuan, can you take my younger brother to play? Let's go there to play."

"Okay..." Sister Nuan was very obedient after filling her stomach. She stretched out her fleshy hand to hold her younger brother's little hand and said, "Brother Shou, Third Sister will take you to play."

Brother Shou is also very good. The siblings joined hands and squatted under the corner of the wall looking for ants.

After his father and brother entered the house, Zhu Fu took Wei Sanniang's hand, the finger was broken, Zhu Fu had a sore nose and red eye circles for no reason.

"Mother, if you want to do some embroidery work to support your family in the future, you have to take care of yourself." Sometimes when Zhu Fu wakes up at night, he will see his mother's room with a kerosene lamp on, and she secretly lies under the window I've seen it, the cheap lady is embroidering alone under the kerosene lamp.

The cheap mother didn't want to let the cheap father know, so she took Fu Ge'er to sleep in the same room, and asked the cheap father to sleep in the same room with the elder brother.

Zhu Fu thought, this family is very reliable and good people, and in this life, he must make some efforts to take care of them.

Wei Sanniang had a gentle and graceful smile on her face, and her eye circles were also red, but she shook her head forcefully: "Mother is fine, as long as you two are good, it's fine if you are more miserable." After speaking, she wiped her face , squeezed out a smile, "It's cold today, you can do your laundry if you want, mother will go and boil some hot water for you."

After finishing speaking, Wei Sanniang walked into the kitchen, while Zhu Fu shook the clothes in her arms violently. She originally wanted to shake off the dust on the clothes, but unexpectedly found that , There are other transparent crystal-like things on the clothes.

(End of this chapter)